What are the problems facing agriculture today?
A number of structural problems for which there is no simple solution; we need an integrated solution, but highly fragmented steps are being taken. The government has become bigger and there are diverse departments and ministries and proper coordination is no longer possible. What was possible in the 1960s – call it the green revolution, symphony, whatever is not possible. In the earlier days it was possible to carry out ideas and bring together people much faster; otherwise we could not have increased wheat production thus. Is it too late for us to do something similar? We don’t have the infrastructure in our villages; even in towns electricity is a problem. We’ve not had an energy security system in the villages combining renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and energy is a key input for small-scale manufacturing. Then we need training and capacity building. We are in a serious situation and on the 60th anniversary of our Independence we’re all saying agriculture cannot wait.
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